Given name & surname
Connery
“a daring man”
Connery is used as a given name and a surname. One Scottish interpretation is “a daring man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scottish interpretation is “a daring man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scottish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Connery through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 145
- 145 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2002. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 206 as a first name in 2020; 1,506 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Connery’s family of names
Connery has a related form in Conarey. Connery has a related form in Conari. Connery has a related form in Conarie.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Connery has relatives in 4 languages.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 16
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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